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by jazzdev 16y ago
The article ends on a bit of a depressing note: The real winners will be public-relations firms, which now know to coach the boss to hesitate more, swear less and avoid excessive expressions of positive emotion.
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How to tell when your boss is lying(economist.com)
47 points by jazzdev 16y ago|27 comments
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by jazzdev 16y ago
Only the abstract is available for free, but the conclusion is interesting. Two of the best hackers I've worked with were in a negative mood a lot of the time. Hmmm. Maybe I shouldn't be so cheerful.
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Negative mood enhances creative problem-solving (informaworld.com)
3 points by jazzdev 16y ago|1 comments
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by jazzdev 16y ago
is that what freedom means? I'm halfway through Harry Browne's "How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World" (recommended by someone on HN) and he has an interesting definition of freedom. Freedom is spending more time seeking pleasure than av
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by jazzdev 16y ago
Great stuff in that video about knowing if something's beautiful or meaningful. And some great stuff at the beginning about not wasting your time doing something you can do better when you're dead, like conserving water or electricity or re
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Do you have a different personality when you speak a different language?(cbc.ca)
89 points by jazzdev 16y ago|83 comments
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by jazzdev 16y ago
I interpreted that to mean value = worth - price So as the price goes up, the value you get goes down.
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by jazzdev 16y ago
That's a great book, but it's about political philosophy. The two types of people described in the book are dynamists (who embrace change and believe change is a net win) and statists (who want to keep things the way they are now).
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by jazzdev 16y ago
Rovio is currently $159 at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/WowWee-Rovio-Enabled-Robotic-WebCam/dp... I don't know how much longer I can hold out before clicking the buy button. [Edit:] After reading the product reviews, the Rovio appears to
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Design Thinking: A Useful Myth(core77.com)
2 points by jazzdev 16y ago|0 comments
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by jazzdev 16y ago
It's not about the bar display. That page you linked to explains why the bar display matters: If your phone is at -60dB (5 bars) a 24dB drop is -84dB (5 bars) If your phone is at -84db (5 bars) a 24db drop is -108 (1 bar) Worst case: If y
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by jazzdev 16y ago
Looks like McChrystal was willing to get fired for what he believed in.
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Heedlessly Hijacking Content(nytimes.com)
3 points by jazzdev 16y ago|0 comments
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Reasons to Splurge (The Psychology of Indulgence)(money.usnews.com)
1 points by jazzdev 16y ago|0 comments
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by jazzdev 16y ago
I had a chance to hear Tufte speak for the first time last week and he starts with his first point. He doesn't say his name, or show any agenda for the talk. He just started right out showing the Music Animation machine, an interesting wa
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Giving Great Talks: A Mashup(boltpeters.com)
2 points by jazzdev 16y ago|1 comments
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by jazzdev 16y ago
I have the same relationship with the cheap clock radio in my bedroom. It sounds great when I'm in bed (to the side of the radio), but as soon as I get out of bed (in front of it) I have to turn the damn thing off because the reception get
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by jazzdev 16y ago
Fixing the quotes to be timestamped properly seems to be a much simpler fix than relying on additional circuit breaker logic.
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At a boy iPhone app uses psychology to make you feel good.(danariely.com)
1 points by jazzdev 16y ago|0 comments
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Is Apple Anti-Charity?(philanthropy.com)
2 points by jazzdev 16y ago|0 comments
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by jazzdev 16y ago
Really? I don't see much correlation. Top 5 by degree density: SF, NY, Boston, Washington, Seattle Top 5 by startup density: SF, Boston, Seattle, NY, Washington The latter list is from http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/06/startup-cen
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by jazzdev 16y ago
many people thought the iPad would fail [because] it's less capable than its seeming competition The success of the iPod and the Flip Video camera seems to demonstrate that mainstream consumers prefer usability to capability. The iPod was
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Taliban poisons students in Afganistan(msnbc.msn.com)
4 points by jazzdev 16y ago|2 comments
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by jazzdev 16y ago
It's possible the cartoonist is backing off, but it seems more likely that her art was misinterpreted as the organization of grassroots movement or something. She just clarified that it was just a cartoon. She didn't take it down or anyth
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by jazzdev 16y ago
'censoring ourselves' is not 'ignoring them'
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by jazzdev 16y ago
It's more about switching cost than taste. (And responding from identity). Getting a new girlfriend and getting a new text editor both require some effort. Your current one may not be perfect, but you know it pretty well. Is it worth the
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by jazzdev 16y ago
Devices like the Amazon Kindle and Apple iPhone are jailed against any unauthorized consumer use, guarded by strict but unproven new federal laws against jailbreaking them. What laws is he referring to? DCMA?
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by jazzdev 16y ago
society generally doesn't accept the argument that killing individual people is justified by some uncertain potential to save others Isn't that what the FDA does? If you have fatal disease X you can apply to get into a drug trial. You c
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by jazzdev 16y ago
Yep. Eric Raymond has a good write-up of this phenomenon, which is called a gift culture . http://catb.org/esr/writings/homesteading/homesteading/ar01s... the society of open-source hackers is in fact a gift culture... in which the onl

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